This Wednesday and Thursday, all are invited to this year’s “QP-fest” (more formally known as the Graduate Student Miniconference in Linguistics). Our annual exposition of qualifying-papers-in-progress will feature ground-breaking presentations by our second- and third-year graduate students. The two-day program includes:
Wednesday, March 10
1:30-‐2:00 | Carissa Abrego-Collier: “Coarticulatory influence on perception of English liquids”
2:00-2:30 | Susan Rizzo: “Articulatory Phonetics in the Manual Modality: the Case of ASL Fingerspelling”
2:30-2:45 | break
2:45-3:15 | Martina Martinovic: “Neoštokavian pitch accents”
3:15-3:45 | Julia Thomas: “Style-shifting in African-American English: A Phonetic Analysis”
Thursday, March 11
9:00-9:30 | Peter Klecha: “Focus and verb copying in Luganda”
9:30-10:00 | Ryan Bochnak: “Exceed comparison in Luganda”
10:00-10:30 | Jonathan Keane: “A new look at Japanese scrambling”
10:30-10:45 | break
10:45-11:15 | Rebekah Baglini: “Getting it done: Telicity, incrementality, and causative event structure”
11:15-11:45 | Timothy Grinsell: “Vagueness in the grammatical perfective”